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ESG financing: cheaper than conventional financing or too expensive to ignore?
31 December 2019Greater demand for sustainable investment products could lead to pricing advantage, argues Neil Caddy
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France's largest insurers looking for climate-conscious asset managers
19 November 2019Three mandates totalling €500m open for tender
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California wildfires illustrate how ESG factors can affect credit, says Moody’s
04 November 2019Wildfires that ravaged parts of California in recent days show the connection between environmental and social risks, and the credit quality of utilities in the US state, Moody’s has said.
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US Solar Fund acquires 128MW project
02 September 2019Renewables asset owner US Solar Fund (USF) has acquired a 128MW solar farm in Utah, US, from solar developer Longroad, investing $30 million for 100% of the equity of the Milford Solar Project.
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BlackRock loses $90.4bn from failing to spot stranded asset risks, says IEEFA
01 August 2019The world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, has seen $90.4 billion knocked off the value of its listed equities holdings over the last decade because it failed to address stranded asset risk in the fossil fuel industry, according to a report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).
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Sustainable loan principles ‘key to unlocking gargantuan financing needs’
02 May 2019Recently-launched Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles (SLLPs) are ‘key to supplying the gargantuan amount of financing’ required to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, White & Case has argued.
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Sustainability-linked loan principles launched
22 March 2019The launch of a set of Sustainability Linked Loan Principles has been hailed as a “critical development” for incentivising borrowers to improve their sustainability performance.
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Green bond round-up, 30 January
30 January 2019Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica has made its debut in the green bond market, raising €1 billion in a five-year deal. It claims this is the first bond from an issuer in the telecoms sector.
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Green Bonds round-up, 19 December
19 December 2018The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has allocated THB5 billion ($152 million) to buy the whole of a two-tranche green bond offering from Thailand's B. Grimm Power.
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French insurers’ climate-related disclosures mostly ‘difficult to understand’, says WWF
26 November 2018French insurers' climate-related disclosures have improved, but the information is still often inaccessible and difficult to understand, according to research by WWF France.